Jumpa has been quietly building behind the scenes. We’ve been here since Cycle 1, building, learning, and iterating. And we’re excited to be part of Cycle 3! Jumpa is an AI-powered financial assistant that lets you move and manage money the way you chat. We’re just getting started! Users can send and receive money across borders, convert currencies, pay bills, save, spend, and manage their finances through chat, voice, or images, while Jumpa connects the underlying payment rails, liquidity providers, and stablecoin infrastructure to execute transactions.

I'm building something special for the community.

very appropriate this is the theme that i was hoping for and maybe my mini app will be useful for everyone, maybe! but i hope so

I think one of the most exciting things about building small apps is that you don't need to start with a huge idea. Sometimes, solving one specific problem can be enough to create something genuinely useful. AI tools are also making it easier to brainstorm features, prototype ideas, and speed up development. Tools like Claude can help with coding and problem-solving, while GitHub helps developers manage and share their projects. I've also been exploring Floment AI as a place to discover and share ideas with online communities. I'm curious to hear what everyone is working on! 💡 If you could build a mini app that solves one everyday problem, what would it do, and who would you build it for?

Congrats first to Knock, Blacktop, Nimiq kids and PROOF. You shipped, and people use what you built. Now the honest part: I'm disappointed. Partly because stakes.day didn't win, sure. You enter a competition to win. But the bigger part is how this cycle was run, and what I learned about building on Nimiq along the way. So here it is, straight. What's on us: the Council said users decided a lot, with full points at 25+. We had 22 wallets transact with Stakes, and Nimiq Pay sends from changing addresses, so the number of real people is likely lower. We missed that bar. I don't argue with it. What wasn't on us: - The dates kept moving. Cycle 2 was first published as 10 Aug to 7 Sep and ran 24 Aug to 18 Sep. Cycle 3 was set for 14 Sep, then 7 Oct, now 14 Oct. Results were due 2 Oct and came out 8 Oct. - The scoring changed mid-cycle. The final rubric went up on 3 Sep, ten days in. Design dropped from 25 points to 10 and a new 25-point Nimiq category appeared. That's a moving target. - The prize split changed at the end. The rules page said $10k, $5k and $2k, and it still does. Then first place became $7k so a fourth app could be paid. I'm happy for everyone who got paid, but a published prize should stay the published prize. - There was no freeze. Submissions closed on 18 Sep, but apps are judged live and nothing says which version counts. Some apps kept shipping all through the judging weeks. We froze ours a week before the deadline, because we read "deadline" as a deadline. - 15 points ride on "unique users", and nowhere does it say how a user is counted. - Open source, but only at the door. Entries had to be public repos under the MIT license, and Nimiq kids passed that check on 18 Sep. Today its repo shows "page not found", and I don't know when or why. Nothing in the rules forbids it, and I've made the Stakes code private too now that we're out. But a prize-winning app whose code nobody can read anymore doesn't sit right with me. The platform: